Zombies on Speed!

Rating: 9/10 (22 February 2008)

As much as I love the George A. Romero zombie flicks from Night of the Living Dead (1968) to Dawn of the Dead (1978), Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later..." is a bloody nightmare of a film and one hell of a ride that I've had the pleasure of experiencing. It's different than most zombie movies because this time around, somebody placed adrenaline on these creatures to make them more scary than before.
The film begins after a protest outside of London, England where a bunch of PETA freaks decide to let loose a bunch of caged experiment chimps where they don't know what they've been infected with until one of them catches the disease where all hell starts to begin.
28 Days Later after the incident, there's not a single soul walking around the streets or bridges of London. No cars honking or crashing except a lone survivor by the name of Jim (Cillian Murphy in a leading heroic role) gets out of bed to see that he is the only man left on the face of England until he realizes that the apocalypse begins and there are other survivors including Selena (Naomie Harris) and her male friend, Mark (Noah Huntly), they try to see if they could find any weapons they could use to hunt the human creatures down.
The way the zombies attack in this film is much more different than having the flesh bitten off, the blood of a zombie has to hit the eye or the inside of your mouth where within a couple of seconds, that person becomes a zombie and has to be killed.
After Mark is attacked by zombies and killed by Selena, her and Jim run through the streets of London where they meet up with Frank (Brendan Gleeson) and his daughter. The four of them embark on a journey where it plays like Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" with the characters making London their own personal ground stealing stuff before being chased by zombies and fighting off soldiers in a hideaway mansion.
"28 Days Later" is truly a virtuoso in horror cinema where in this decade, Danny Boyle must've taken notes to find out how to make a successful horror picture.
It sure as hell worked for me.